Roads: Construction

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many miles of new road have been built in each year since 1997.

Rosie Winterton: holding answer 21 January 2008
	 The following table shows the total miles of trunk road and motorway built in each year from 1997 to December 2007.
	
		
			  Calendar year  Scheme miles 
			 1997 75.1 
			 1998 51.5 
			 1999 28.9 
			 2000 23 
			 2001 2.2 
			 2002 19.1 
			 2003 85 
			 2004 31.3 
			 2005 21.5 
			 2006 38.6 
			 2007 28.82 
			 Total 405 
		
	
	These figures are currently being reviewed.
	Data on lengths of non-trunk roads constructed are not collected centrally and an overall figure are not therefore available.